Section
101a was from a sentence added to R.S. § 5296 by act May 24, 1935, ch. 142, 49 Stat. 289. R.S. § 5296 was subsequently amended in full by act June 29, 1940, ch. 499, § 4,54 Stat. 692, which failed to include provisions on the subject of that sentence or to refer to the 1935 amendment adding it. That sentence provided as follows: “The District Court of the Territory of Alaska shall be deemed a court of the United States, and the commissioners appointed by the judges of the said District Court of the Territory of Alaska under the provisions of title I, chapter 1, section
6, of the act of June 6, 1900 (31 Stat. 323, 324 [sections
104 and
108 of this title]), shall be deemed commissioners of a United States court, within the intent and meaning of this section [former section
641 of title
18].”